United Kingdom. A British South Africa Company Medal, M.R.F. Auction Runkle was a life-long member

Runkle was a life-long member of the Virginia National Guard

Apparently even as the Red Army was advancing and the fall of Berlin was in the foreseeable future

The left breast has two sets of vertically-arranged threaded loops for the accommodation of decorations with vertical pinbacks

1918 at Shorncliffe

It features a 255 mm-long magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and unsharpened edges

United Kingdom. A British South Africa Company Medal, M.R.F. Auction Runkle was a life-long memberInstituted in 1896 by Queen Victoria. (TROOPR W. J. HENNESSEY. M. R. F.) Naming is privately engraved in block capitals, toned, near very fine. Footnote: The British South Africa Company Medal was initially sanctioned by Queen Victoria in 1896. It was granted to military personnel in commemoration of the First and Second Matabele Wars. There are four versions of the British South Africa Company Medal. Queen Victoria sanctioned the Matabeleland 1893